We're still in Ricky Bobby's world
Twenty years ago, Will Ferrell's stock car manchild presaged an overheated era of US culture
Iran plays the waiting game
Meanwhile, U.S. oil reserves hit a new low as the economy teeters
Trump’s "forever" tariffs are kicking in
Trump’s embrace of tariffs can be understood as an instrument of personal power
Welcome to Venecky?
A Kentucky school's botched student planner is ridiculous — but it's hardly the troubled district's biggest problem
Marco Rubio opts for Pop-Tarts over MAHA
Secretary of state dishes on RFK Jr.'s sauerkraut, Hegseth's 'arrogant' cat and his own disastrous keto experiment
The summer of rom-com sex talk
Three new films find room for intimacy in a slide toward fascism
Trump begs SCOTUS for his ballroom
The president lashes out at “treasonists” after lower courts blocked construction on his $400 million project
How Gen Z really drinks
Behind the sober-generation stereotype is careful spending and new ways to go out
Fox's WNBA hate is good press
While the network talks about Caitlin Clark and the trans panic, the league's popularity is soaring
DOJ leaders ignored internal concerns
The Trump admin has launched a series of unprecedented initiatives to find and prosecute voting by noncitizens
Phoebe Bridgers has lots of feelings
On "Lost Weekend," Phoebe Bridgers embraces the pain and joy of simply being alive
Mangione pleads guilty to killing CEO
“I shot Mr. Thompson, and he died,” the 28-year-old said
“Lanterns” questions what makes a hero
The DCU's new drama uses Hal Jordan and John Stewart's tense team-up to take a swing at America's meritocracy myth
We're all food safety inspectors now
MAHA wants Americans to scrutinize their food. Taylor Farms recalls show how hard that has become
The worst press secretary I've ever seen
Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House. She won't be missed by the media she mocked and despised
The Flock uprising is just the beginning
People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives
Time for James Carville to shut up
The strategist and other Third Way advocates think they have the answers for Trump. But they got us into this mess
How Paxton, Talarico differ on God
Campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Paxton says he was “delivered by God” to protect Texas from leftists
Our body-positive era has some flaws
Scrutiny over Ariana Grande, Kaia Gerber and Jenna Ortega’s bodies exposes how little we’ve learned
Hong's loss proves AOC right
Her defeat in the state’s gubernatorial primary shows why the left needs happy warriors like AOC and Mamdani
The gospel of science denial
Donald Trump and RFK Jr.'s anti-vax agenda has deep roots in fundamentalist faith and Big Business
MAGA's burrito meltdown
A $20 meal became a right-wing media feud, exposing a party's broken promises
Prediction markets place election odds
Add betting markets to the list of things election officials are worried about this year
Leavitt is leaving the Trump admin
The number of women left in the Trump admin is shrinking